B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5846

HR 5846 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lupus 469 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,213 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 76.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 469 years ago.

469 lybrightness mag 5.93A0V + B

Also catalogued as HD 140285 · HIP 77086

10,213 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
76.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V + B
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
469 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
76.56×
the Sun's light output
0.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 5846B-type
Sky regionLupusthis direction
StarHR 580726 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.